rwtd_barbie

To connect powered and unpowered areas I made some simple parks in the asset editor but set their park effects to zero. They do not effect happiness when I put them in place or when I delete or move them. They are just grass with some trees. I called them "vacant lots."

Would be awesome if it would also plop the British, French and German building sets.

They are probably in the starting phases of making the next SimCity and are gathering info. It would also help them with other games too.

I'm playing offline in a region with 5 cities and one Great Work. My cities all are between 75,000 and 175,000 in population. I tried making a very wealthy city with a poor city next to it so the $ people could come to the $$$ city and work. That did not work. What stops it is that the people have to be able to get from their homes to their jobs in the other city and back in a certain amount of time. Most cannot do it. If they live near the entrance/exit of their hometown and work at the entrance/exit of the next town over they can do it however.

My cities are actually running better since the 5.0 patch, but they are only between 150,000 and 200,000 people. The best tip I found on these forums is to use the happiness map to see any buildings in red and bulldoze them before they are abandoned. Another thing I noticed is that sometimes cars u-turn in the middle of a road for no reason. It is like there is an invisible fence blocking their path. Replace that stretch of road and traffic flows again. A few of those in a city can make a big difference in traffic.

Originally posted by: rwtd_barbie I set shadows and city detail to low which reduced the BTD crashes significantly.quote> Update: I used DubleKiller and updated my soundcard drivers. That made the game crash worse! I set # of sims showed, special effects and shadows to low, and city detail to medium--now the game doesn't crash at all!

I set shadows and city detail to low which reduced the BTD crashes significantly.

That worked very well. I used the draw tool with the grids turned on to help keep it straight. Thanks! One problem, the banks of the canals are sloped. Is there any way to make those flat? I tried using the flatten tool on the edges of the canals, but that didn't work. 2 posts in one year!

First, thanks for making SC4Terraformer! I saw on the some of the pics you posted nice, straight,trenhes for sunken highways. Is there anyway to make canals? I would like to make them both 1 and 2 squares wide (same width as either road or avenue).